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Sgt. Crackpot
 Post subject: Christmas/Holiday Movies
PostPosted: Fri December 06, 2013 12:47 am 
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List/talk about your favourite Christmas movies.

Without fail, every year I watch with my kids:

    Santa Claus: The Movie
    A Christmas Story
    The Polar Express
    National Lampoons Christmas Vacation (OK, my kids don't watch this one)

And sometimes:

    Bad Santa
    Scrooged
    Die Hard :D

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 Post subject: Re: Christmas Movies
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There's a number of classic versions of A Christmas Carol that I always loved

A Christmas Carol (with Alastair Simm) from 1951
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044008/?ref_=nv_sr_3

Scrooge (with Albert Finney) from 1970, a musical!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066344/


two of my favorites... if you've never seen them you're missing something about Christmas

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I love the tale/story of Scrooge, but I haven't watched one of the originals since I was a kid. Only the various TV/take off versions that are circulated each year. Perhaps it's time I watched one, and introduced my kids to it too.

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Sgt. Crackpot wrote:
I love the tale/story of Scrooge, but I haven't watched one of the originals since I was a kid. Only the various TV/take off versions that are circulated each year. Perhaps it's time I watched one, and introduced my kids to it too.




the musical includes this, how do you go wrong with a song about thanking someone for dying?

just sayin'

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Sgt. Crackpot wrote:
Die Hard :D


Back in the 80s Christmas was Lethal Weapon, Die Hard and Rocky 4!
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Always watch

Christmas vacation
Christmas story
Home alone 1 & 2
Scrooged
The grinch
And a ton more
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Black Christmas
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Me and the Mrs. watch a few, pretty much the same ones, every Christmas / Winter Solstice.

Christmas Vacation
Elf
Love Actually (this one isn't my choice, I pretty much hate this movie, but I get points watching with the Mrs.)
Home Alone
A Christmas Story

Some others that aren't necessarily Christmas movies, but they tend to get revisited at least every other year around this time:

Harry Potter (not all but maybe like one or two of them)
The Empire Strikes Back
The Shining
Planes Trains & Automobiles
Scrooged
A Christmas Carol (I like the one from the 50's)
Lord Of The Rings (the first two, I don't like the 3rd as much)
Home Alone 2
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Harry Lime
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darth_vedder wrote:

Some others that aren't necessarily Christmas movies...

Scrooged
A Christmas Carol (I like the one from the 50's)


Yeah, those aren't Christmas movies, even though, you know, one of them has Christmas in the damn title. For pete sake.
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Harry Lime
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Gremlins.

I usually watch A Nightmare Before Christmas around Thanksgiving.

Not a Christmas movie, but I watch it every year, Catch Me If You Can. Probably Spielberg's best post-SPR.
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Good one!
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bada wrote:
theplatypus wrote:
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Good one!


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Harry Lime wrote:
darth_vedder wrote:

Some others that aren't necessarily Christmas movies...

Scrooged
A Christmas Carol (I like the one from the 50's)


Yeah, those aren't Christmas movies, even though, you know, one of them has Christmas in the damn title. For pete sake.


I meant I watch these other movies too now and then, and some are and some are not Christmas movies.
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Must watches..
Alastair Simm Christmas Carol
A Christmas Story
Christmas Vacation
Scrooged

sometimes..
Gremlins
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i usually watch the griswold's christmas 2-3 times christmas day
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Harry Lime
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I watched Rocky IV the other day.
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Jingle all the way is my favorite christmas movie. I make my family watch it every year.

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Emmet Otter's Jugband Christmas
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